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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 11/10/2026

I want to play this game so I can finally escape the 100% of this Onion poll:

A fake poll from The Onion: “Who is our favorite Commedia dell’Arte character?”

2,500 Americans polled:
Columbine: 0%
Scaramouche: 0%
Pulcinella: 0%
Pantalone: 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don’t know: 100%

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 29/09/2026

I dunno, there was the one who was into Hitler.

A snippet of the Wikipedia article for Joe Kennedy, Jr (JFK’s older brother and RFK Jr’s uncle who died before he was born). It reads:

Kennedy expressed approval of Adolf Hitler before World War II began. When his father sent him to visit Nazi Germany in 1934, Joseph Jr. wrote back and praised the Nazi sterilization policy as "a great thing" that "will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men." Kennedy Jr. explained, "Hitler is building a spirit in his men that could be envied in any country."

(In his defense, he did later die in WWII, so evidently he changed his mind. But uh… if Pearl Harbor hadn’t happened, I’m not sure he would’ve. I don’t think any of us want to think about what Joe Kennedy ended up doing in the “Man in the High Castle” universe.)

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 12/09/2026

I don’t think so; not that that woman looks much like Rosa Luxemburg, but she looks even less like Goldman. Goldman’s glasses, for one, were an iconic part of her whole look. An AI might make the glasses look weird or half-melted to her face, but I don’t think it would leave them off entirely.

Black-and-white photo of Emma Goldman looking extremely turn of the century in a dark jacket with puffed sleeves, shirtwaist with a bow around her collar, pince-nez glasses with a chain hanging off them, and a jaunty hat with flowers around the brim.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 02/09/2026

What GIF pops up when you type your name? Story of my life, man

Screenshot of me searching Bluesky’s GIF library for Giulianna. The result is a blank black background with the following written on it in white text:

No results found

No GIFs found for “Giulianna”.

Then a big blue button that says, Go Back

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 24/08/2026

So the part of the Weschler test that’s most affected by the Flynn effect is the “similarities” section, which is also the section most specific to the WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic) way of looking at the world. web.archive.org/web/20140730...

The best way to understand why I.Q.s rise, Flynn argues, is to look at one of the most widely used I.Q. tests, the so-called WISC (for Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children). The WISC is composed of ten subtests, each of which measures a different aspect of I.Q. Flynn points out that scores in some of the categories—those measuring general knowledge, say, or vocabulary or the ability to do basic arithmetic—have risen only modestly over time. The big gains on the WISC are largely in the category known as “similarities,” where you get questions such as “In what way are ‘dogs’ and ‘rabbits’ alike?” Today, we tend to give what, for the purposes of I.Q. tests, is the right answer: dogs and rabbits are both mammals. A nineteenth-century American would have said that “you use dogs to hunt rabbits.”

The psychologist Michael Cole and some colleagues once gave members of the Kpelle tribe, in Liberia, a version of the WISC similarities test: they took a basket of food, tools, containers, and clothing and asked the tribesmen to sort them into appropriate categories. To the frustration of the researchers, the Kpelle chose functional pairings. They put a potato and a knife together because a knife is used to cut a potato. “A wise man could only do such-and-such,” they explained. Finally, the researchers asked, “How would a fool do it?” The tribesmen immediately re-sorted the items into the “right” categories. It can be argued that taxonomical categories are a developmental improvement—that is, that the Kpelle would be more likely to advance, technologically and scientifically, if they started to see the world that way. But to label them less intelligent than Westerners, on the basis of their performance on that test, is merely to state that they have different cognitive preferences and habits.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 08/08/2026

Having done more research 🧐 it appears she is mostly irritated by people who explain the joke. Again, I have to say, blocking everyone who isn’t as funny as you seems like a bad move for someone trying to make a living as a comedian. If everyone met her standards, there’d be no demand for her work.

Screenshot of Bluesky exchange:
Mr Moose says, “It’s so twee and cringe, it’s been X for years, it’s not going to be Twitter again.” (This comment has one like, from Bethany Black herself.)

To which Bethany Black responds: “For me it’s the smug satisfaction as if they’re the first person to think that, and that everyone else is too dumb to get their very clever joke so they need to explain it. It upsets me on a professional level I think”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 08/08/2026

No idea who this person is, but I got curious, so I checked her account. Did you by chance recently refer to X as “Xitter”?

Screenshot of two Bluesky posts by Bethany Black:
“Did a block of 8 months of people going ‘I call it Xitter (pronounced shitter)” for being smug tedious cunts, but especially a double block for the guy who saw someone call it Xitter and went ‘does anyone realize you’d pronounce that shitter 😂😂😂’ and, just fuck off. There’s nothing for you on my TL”

Second post:
“So if you’ve ever posted ‘I call it Xitter (pronounced shitter)’ and you’re seeing this, I’ve not got to you yet”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 21/07/2026

Javascript June-ly is complete. 🙌 (It was originally going to be Javascript June, but um... turns out Javascript is kinda hard, so Javascript June bled into July, hence Javascript June-ly.)

A browser window showing a page from ExecuteProgram.com. It shows all the courses I took, ordered from newest to oldest, all of them marked 100% completed:

JavaScript Arrays
Slice, filter, map, reduce, and other array methods.
261 code examples in 47 lessons.
You learned Reduce Right 18 hrs ago. Nothing to do right now.

Everyday TypeScript
TypeScript types for everyday application development.
421 code examples in 56 lessons.
You learned Readonly Properties vs. Values 11 days ago. Nothing to do right now.

JavaScript Concurrency
Callbacks, promises, async/await and event loops.
222 code examples in 33 lessons.
You learned Error Handling in Async Functions 12 days ago. Nothing to do right now.

Modern JavaScript
Modern JavaScript features supported by all browsers.
481 code examples in 44 lessons.
You learned Map Iterators 20 days ago. Nothing to do right now.

TypeScript Basics
Static types and the TypeScript language from the ground up.
176 code examples in 44 lessons.
You learned Nullability 42 days ago. Nothing to do right now.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 17/07/2026

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

In order to figure out whether selfishness leads to wealth (rather than vice versa), Piff and his colleagues ran a study where they manipulated people’s class feelings. The researchers asked participants to spend a few minutes comparing themselves either to people better off or worse off than themselves financially. Afterwards, participants were shown a jar of candy and told that they could take home as much as they wanted. They were also told that the leftover candy would be given to children in a nearby laboratory. Those participants who had spent time thinking about how much better off they were compared to others ended up taking significantly more candy for themselves--leaving less behind for the children.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 13/07/2026

Paneer lababdar, the best dish, is back at Spice Affair, the best restaurant. Maybe good things can still happen.

Picture taken from above of a long, thin plate of paneer tikka lababdar, lying on a patio table next to a water glass. The dish consists of triangles of smoked paneer (a mild Indian cheese) brushed with a thin layer of tikka sauce, drenched in a much thicker layer of creamy orange sauce, generously drizzled with shreds of MORE PANEER and cilantro leaves. I devoured it all and it was SO GOOD.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 24/04/2026

the most recent meme in your photo roll describes your mental state

Vaguely 50s-flavored meme depicting a stick figure shoveling against a red background. Large yellow letters implore the viewer: “The apocalypse in progress is not free. Please continue working.”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 24/04/2026

When will the football people leave my city in peace

Painting: “Young fisherman’s wife waiting for her husband to return” by Joseph Caraud. A white woman with brown hair mostly covered by a white bonnet, wearing a dark blue dress and white apron, sits by a curtained window gazing wistfully out at the sea beyond. She holds a fishing net in her hands. Behind her, on the floor, a blond baby sleeps in a basket, nestled in blankets.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 10/04/2026

I’m not quite done with this video, but I want you to know I love your cat and also he has Sally Bowles bangs

Black-and-white picture of Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in the 1972 movie “Cabaret.” She has bangs that appear to turn her face into a heart, over thinly-plucked eyebrows, extravagant false eyelashes, and a false mole in her cheek. She is wearing a sparkly black low-cut dress and leaning against a bedpost.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 04/04/2026

Just checked an inflation calculator — $7.25 in 1996 would be worth $15.10 today, so if we’re keeping to the “Fight for $15,” yup! 1/2

Screencap of calculation on usinflationcalculator.com, showing that $7.25 in 1996 would be worth $15.10 in 2026, thanks to a cumulative inflation rate of 108.3%.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 03/04/2026

We are thankful for the gift of Olipop.

A can of Crisp Apple-flavored Olipop sits on a kitchen counter next to a fancy wine glass. As G-d intended.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 11/03/2026

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity.

Picture of basil, oregano, and parsley plants growing in mason jars on a well-lit blond wood (or wood-like) countertop with a backsplash of white subway tile behind them.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 05/03/2026

Looking forward to experiencing this someday

Screenshot of a Pittsburgh weather report forecasting rain every day until Monday, then two days of relief followed by another week of rain.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 14/02/2026

Maples are red (At least in the fall) And these little moths Love them most of all

A rosy maple moth, photographed from the front so you can see its darling little muppet face. It’s furry, a mix of bright pink and yellow, and has big black eyes below two little feathery antennae.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 03/02/2026

It’s bad politics. Registered voters think of Democrats as the pro-trans party, and according to this recent poll, they support that by a whopping 22-point margin. Nominating a transphobe would throw away their biggest advantage for… what? The sake of cruelty?

Results of a Fox News poll of registered voters, conducted from January 23-26, 2026. The title is: “Issues where more voters favor Democrats than GOP.”

Voters favor Democrats on…
Transgender +22
Healthcare +21
Vaccines +16
Affordability +14
Helping Middle Class +14

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 08/01/2026

Arcade Fire’s first three albums generally, but especially this one. I liked Harry Potter and Bill Cosby fine as a kid, but this is the one that REALLY hurt.

Cover of Arcade Fire’s third album, “The Suburbs.” A washed-out photograph depicts a classic car parked outside a very 70s-coded house (red brick + brown wooden paneling) with palm trees in front.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 27/12/2025

I wouldn’t say *no one else* knows about it, but it’s weirdly obscure given how great it is. It *should* be in the pantheon of Christmas classics alongside “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Maybe it’s more popular in Europe, but in the U.S. few people seem to even know about it. 🧵

Movie poster for “Joyeux Noel” (2005). Against a snowy backdrop of World War I soldiers climbing out of their trenches, three men walk towards the camera: a French lieutenant in a black coat, a German lieutenant in a blue coat trimmed with fur, and a Scottish lieutenant in a green coat. Beside the Scottish lieutenant, on the rim of the German trench, stands a small Christmas tree.

Tagline reads:
Christmas Eve, 1914.
On a World War I battlefield, a Momentous Event changed the lives of soldiers from France, Germany, and England.
Based on a true story.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 17/12/2025

This is Leo. He is not my cat, but I made friends with him when he was living in a nearby park. In my attempts to get him inside before the weather got too cold, I discovered that I was one of at least five people in the neighborhood looking out for him. One of those people adopted him!

An indescribably adorable little gray tabby with a white face, bib, and mittens. He is on a paved walking trail littered with autumn leaves. A white woman is petting his head and he is blissfully leaning into the pets with his eyes closed. Did I mention that his little nose is very pink? Because it is!

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 11/12/2025

This Christmas season I’m finally reading “A Christmas Carol,” not just having it acted out for me by muppets, and now I feel personally attacked by Scrooge’s girlfriend.

“You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 28/11/2025

You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you. NOOOO, my little park buddy!

Picture of a happy orange and white cat rubbing his chin against a white woman’s hand (mine). You can see part of my leg, in blue jeans, and my arm, in a gray hoodie sleeve. We’re outside, on a walking trail in a park.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 26/10/2025

I was pretty shocked when I saw this map earlier today. It’s great to donate to your local food bank, but it looks like people in New Mexico will be in the most desperate need when SNAP funds run out November 1. Wherever you live, if you’re looking for a food bank to give to, consider one in NM.

Map of the United States, shaded to show which states had higher and lower rates of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) participation as of November 2022. The highest rate is 24%, the lowest 5%. New Mexico is shockingly dark — almost a quarter of its population relies on SNAP, or did a few years ago!

Some other states with higher rates of SNAP participation include: Louisiana, West Virginia, Oregon, Oklahoma, and Illinois.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 18/10/2025

Didn’t want to accidentally doxx or endanger anyone by taking pictures of people, but here’s a well-placed sticker that amused me:

A public recycling bin in downtown Pittsburgh. Someone has attached an orange sticker to it that reads, “Fit for a King. #DumpTrump.”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 13/09/2025

Also, remember the time they made the Book of Job into an animated sitcom and the Catholic League threw a fit so they canceled it after like three episodes? Another one I’m still quoting even though no one else remembers it. If I’m not God’s prophet on Earth, what am I doing with this corn nut?

DVD cover of “God, the Devil, and Bob.” God looks like Jerry Garcia, an old hippie in sunglasses drinking a beer. The Devil looks vaguely late 90s goth stylish in a black trench coat and is drinking a martini. And then there’s Bob Allman, random schlub who now has to prove that humanity is worth saving. Tagline: “One divine comedy. One helluva show.”

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 13/09/2025

Speaking of decades-old short-lived Comedy Central shows:

Ad for the late 90s show “Strangers with Candy,” starring Amy Sedaris as middle-aged high schooler Gerri Blank. Doo doo doo doo doooooo! Doo doo!

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 13/09/2025

STELLA! It aired for one season twenty years ago and I am somehow still quoting it even though basically no one remembers it except me, my husband, my brother-in-law, and presumably the mothers of Michael, Michael, and David. IT’S FRIDAY NIIIIIGHT! (It really is, too!)

Advertisement for the new Comedy Central show “Stella,” featuring David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black. Series premiere Tuesday, June 28, 2005! (Series finale August 30, 2005. Yes, this show lasted approximately one summer. One wet, hot, American summer.)

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 07/09/2025

This squirrel got a WHOLE SLICE OF BREAD!

Terrible photo, taken on my phone and zoomed in beyond all reason, of a fox squirrel sitting on a tree branch eating an entire slice of white bread. Where did he get it from? Did someone give it to him? Did someone accidentally leave an entire loaf in the park for some reason, and he just grabbed one slice? The world will never know.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 03/09/2025

Reposted with alt text, but be sure to click through to read the whole thread because it’s really important. It’s never too late to start protecting yourself and others. Even if you stopped masking, or never started, you can start wearing N95s or KN95s in indoor (and crowded outdoor) public spaces.

Screenshot of an X post published by AJ Leonardi (@fitterhappierAJ) at 10:45 AM on September 1, 2025:

There’s a daft talking point where people say “immune damage” only occurs in severe long covid.

That’s not true at all. Mark Davis at Stanford showed the function of cd8 T cells is harmed after covid infection in normal people.

There is now a news publication where “experts” concede covid is harming immunity, 4 years after my many claims.

Apparent lymphopenia is not the only indicator. That is a late and advanced sign. Functional assays like the response to new vaccinations are more apparent indicators.

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Revolutionary Giuli @giuli.revolutionarygames.co · 28/08/2025

Don’t have their names saved in my phone, but if you Google those numbers, you will find they belong to the Pittsburgh offices of (from top to bottom) Sen. Dave McCormick, Sen. John Fetterman, and Rep. Summer Lee, respectively.

A screenshot of my call history showing that I made calls to three different phone numbers in Pittsburgh, PA between 4:04 and 4:09 pm today. Those numbers belong to my elected representatives.

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